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A Severe Weather Event for this study will be those events that had more than two confirmed Severe Thunderstorms This is determined by using the NWSs Six Trees Method

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Start: 2870 total warnings Period: From March 2005 to March 2011 Not evenly spaced Combined all events for a month into one number Arctic Oscillation Index was collected on a monthly basis for the same time period.

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There is no conclusive evidence that the Arctic Oscillation Index is correlated with the amount of severe weather throughout the year. In future studies, the correlation between the number of cold weather events and the Arctic Oscillation should be studied.